study
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(verb) learn by reading book; "He is studying geology in his room" |
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Related Words: bone, bone up, con, cram, drum, get up, grind away, larn, learn, learn, memorize, mug up, review, swot, swot up |
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(verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning |
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Related Words: major |
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(verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study" |
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Synonyms: contemplate, meditate |
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Related Words: cerebrate, cogitate, think |
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(verb) give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving" |
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Synonyms: consider |
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Related Words: compare, equate, liken |
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(noun) a room used for reading and writing and studying; "he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study" |
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Related Words: room |
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(noun) a state of deep mental absorption; "she is in a deep study" |
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Related Words: absorption, concentration, engrossment |
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(noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design" |
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Synonyms: work |
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Related Words: acquisition, learning |
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(noun) a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique; "a study in spiccato bowing" |
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Related Words: composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
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(noun) someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play); "he is a quick study" |
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Related Words: memorizer |
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(verb) be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" |
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Synonyms: learn, read, take |
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Related Words: audit, drill, exercise, practice, practise, prepare, train |
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(noun) a detailed critical inspection |
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Synonyms: survey |
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Related Words: examination, inspection, resurvey, scrutiny |
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(noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint" |
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Synonyms: sketch |
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Related Words: design, draft, drawing, rough drawing, vignette |
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(noun) attentive scrutiny and thought; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer" |
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Synonyms: cogitation |
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Related Words: cerebration, intellection, lucubration, mentation, thinking, thought |
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(noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group; "this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale" |
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Synonyms: report |
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Related Words: blue book, info, information, medical report, progress report, white book, white paper |
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(verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" |
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Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine |
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Related Words: appraise, assay, audit, check, check into, check out, check over, check up on, compare, consider, diagnose, follow, go over, inspect, investigate, look at, look into, name, reexamine, review, screen, scrutinize, survey, suss out, trace, view |
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(noun) a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" |
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Synonyms: branch of knowledge, discipline, field, field of study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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Related Words: allometry, applied science, architecture, arts, bibliotics, divinity, engineering, engineering science, frontier, humanistic discipline, humanities, knowledge base, knowledge domain, liberal arts, military science, ology, science, scientific discipline, technology, theology |
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